Jobs-Housing Fit in the Bay Area

Jobs-Housing Fit
in the Bay Area
By Chris Benner and Bidita Tithi,
Center for Regional Change,
UC Davis
[email protected]
(530)754-8799,
http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu
Abstract
Developing the right fit between
available housing types and the income
level of residents is an important part of
regional planning and development.
This report examines patterns of jobs
and housing in the Bay Area, using a
low-wage jobs to affordable housing
ratio calculated from publicly available
data sources. This analysis shows clearly
that there is a substantial shortage of
affordable housing in relation to the
number of low-wage jobs in many of the
suburban areas of the Bay Area region,
most strikingly in the East Bay Suburbs,
along the San Francisco Peninsula, and
in southern Alameda County. This
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For full report see: http://mappingregionalchange.ucdavis.edu/jobshousingfit2011